[IO Islamic 468] كلّيّات فقير

Kulliyyât-i-Faḳîr

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1710 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 468 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1710

Kulliyyât-i-Faḳîr (كلّيّات فقير).

The poetical works of Mîr Shams-aldin Faḳîr ‘Abbâsî, who was born at Shâhjahânâbâd A.H. 1115 (A.D. 1703, 1704), and perished A.H. 1180, according to one tadhkirah only A.H. 1181 (A.D. 1766, 1767), by shipwreck while on his pilgrimage to Makkah, see A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 158, 223, and 394-396; Khazâna-i-’âmirah, No. 95 (Bodleian Cat., col. 258); Khulâṣat-alkalâm, No. 52 (ib., col. 299); Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 202 (ib., col. 309); and Makhzan-algharâ’ib, No. 1993 (ib., col. 362). Besides the works contained in these so-called كلّيّات, Faḳîr wrote two mathnawîs, viz. the واله و سلطان (see the following copy) and the شمس الضّحى, the noon-sun, in praise of the Imâms, also styled معجزات چهارده معصوم (see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 395); various prose-treatises on prosody, rhetorical art, etc., for instance, the وافية فى علم العروض و القافية, on metres and rhyme, in a مقدّمه, two ركن, and a خاتمه, and the خلاصة البديعى, on tropical figures, in a مقدّمه, two فصل, and a خاتمه (see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 623), and some Rekhta verses. According to A. Sprenger, loc. cit., and the Makhzan-algharâ’ib, he used originally the takhalluṣ Maftûn.

Contents:

I.Dîwân, consisting of

1.Ḳaṣîdas, tarjî’s, and tarkîbbands, on fol. 1b, beginning:

اى غم عشق تو شورى در جهان انداخته

طشت عاشق را زبام آسمان انداخته

2.Ḳiṭ’as and chronograms, on fol. 46b, beginning:

سؤالى كرد با من نكته دانى

كه اى جانت بسرّ غيب همدم

3.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 54b, beginning:

اى در طلب نام تو آواره نشانها

گم كرده ره معنئ وصف تو بيانها

4.Rubâ’îs, on fol. 155b, beginning:اسم الله كه هست سرمايۀ جان الخ .

II.Mathnawîs, viz.:

5.Durr-i-maknûn (درّ مكنون), the hidden pearl, or the story of the daughter of the Ḳaiṣar of Rûm, مليكه or نرجس خاتون, and the Imâm Ḥasan ‘Askari, composed A.H. 1169 (A.D. 1755, 1756), beginning, on fol. 167b:

خداوندا ره تفريد بنما – بروى من در توحيد بگشا

In A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 396, this mathnawî is called مولود امام مهدى, the birth and miracles of Imâm Mahdî.

6.Tuḥfat-alshabâb (تحفة الشباب), the present of youth, on fol. 281b, beginning:

مرحبا اى صبح ايّام وصال – مرحبا اى آفتاب بيزوال

composed A.H. 1163 (A.D. 1750).

7.Mathnawî dar wâḳi’a-i-jânsûz-i-Karbalâ (مثنوى در واقعۀ جانسوز كربلا ), the heart-burning calamity of Karbalâ, on fol. 286b, beginning:

باز از ماه محرّم در جهان – تازه شد داغ مصيبت دوستان

8.Mathnawî darta’rîf-i-daulatkhâna-i-Nawwâb Amîr-alumarâ Sâdâtkhân Bahâdur (مثنوى در تعريف دولتخانۀ نوّاب امير الامرا ساداتخان بهادر), description of the palace of the Nawwâb Sâdâtkhân Bahâdur, on fol. 289b, beginning:

دگر بر روى طبع نكته پرداز

درى گرديده از فيض سخن باز

9.Taṣwîr-i-maḥabbat (تصوير محبّت), the image of love, or the story of Râmćand the son of the Betel seller, on fol. 294b, beginning:

خداوندا دلى ده شعله سانم

كه از سوزش فتد آتش بجانم

Composed A.H. 1156 (A.D. 1743), the title being a chronogram.

Dated the 22nd of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1184 (A.D. 1771, April 8), by Muḥammad Ḥusain Ghûrî.

No. 468, ff. 323, 2 coll., each ll. 15; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/2 in. by 47/8 in.